Thread Number: 27513  /  Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
I think this one nearly made the FedEx man keel over.
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Post# 308133   12/6/2014 at 22:23 (3,400 days old) by PoconoVacMan (Northeast Pennsylvania)        

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A few weeks ago, my dear friend Brandon said he had a surprise for me and asked for my address. After much poking, prodding, and prying, I finally got him to tell me that the surprise was a NIB set of Hoover Concept One attachments. Feeling very lucky and happy, I gave him the address, and waited. 

 

When I received the email from FedEx yesterday that the package had been shipped, I almost sh** a cinderblock upon seeing that the box weighed nearly 70 pounds! I said to myself, "Self, HOW does a set of attachments weigh that much?!"

 

This morning, I was sitting in the living room watching television when the FedEx truck pulled up the street. Picture it. Fat, balding delivery guy huffing and puffing as he schleps a gigantic box up the front walkway to the porch. I thought the poor devil would collapse on the spot! 

 

The pictures will do some more explaining.


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Post# 308134 , Reply# 1   12/6/2014 at 22:29 (3,400 days old) by HisMastersVoice (Ferndale, MI)        

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Glad everything made it! At least I didn't have to worry about that box getting "misplaced" like the handle to my Hoover 450. ;-)

Post# 308136 , Reply# 2   12/6/2014 at 22:31 (3,400 days old) by GusHerb (Chicagoland)        

What nice vacuums and parts! Your dear friend Brandon is such a doll for sending you such nice things!

Post# 308147 , Reply# 3   12/7/2014 at 00:49 (3,400 days old) by smow69 (Muskogee Oklahoma)        
what a friend

there are some great people on this site like john Gregory who sent me the hood very nice of him some people just are very sincere friends. I never met him till he sent me this hood but it was cool to get a part gifted from someone I didn't even know. that's never happened to me before. thank you John great gift.SHANE

Post# 308152 , Reply# 4   12/7/2014 at 01:50 (3,400 days old) by silentjon ()        

That's awesome! What does this bring your collection up to?

Post# 308153 , Reply# 5   12/7/2014 at 02:03 (3,400 days old) by bnsd60m9200 (Akron OH)        

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nice hoover model 719. great convertible. love the color.

Post# 308160 , Reply# 6   12/7/2014 at 06:07 (3,399 days old) by timborow (Georgia)        
Eureka

Nice Eureka vacuum. We had me like that years ago. Great little vacuum. It came from KMart in the late 1980s. Ours had the wooden brushroll. I always wished it had the metal one. What model number is it? I may have to start searching for one.

Tim


Post# 308177 , Reply# 7   12/7/2014 at 14:54 (3,399 days old) by PoconoVacMan (Northeast Pennsylvania)        

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Jon: Jeez...has to be somewhere in the 60-75 range! (I am OUT OF ROOM!) 

 

Will: I love the color too! I can't wait to get it all cleaned up and give it good mechanical treatment too. 

 

Tim: The Eureka is a Model 630, indeed a K-Mart model from the 80s. Mine has the wooden brushroll too. 


Post# 308191 , Reply# 8   12/7/2014 at 16:29 (3,399 days old) by silentjon ()        

I have 14, and my partner thinks I'm nuts

Post# 308210 , Reply# 9   12/7/2014 at 21:28 (3,399 days old) by timborow (Georgia)        
Eureka

Thanks for the reply. Going to start searching for one.


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